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Ocm39986872-1926-HB-0133.Pdf HOUSE 133 Or CommonUieaitl) of spassacljusctts Division of Metropolitan Planning. To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled. Section 33 of chapter 30 of the General Laws, as amended, provides that State officers and departments or heads thereof, except the com- mission on administration and finance, shall annually on or before the first Wednesday in December deposit with the state secretary such parts of their annual reports as contain recommendations or suggestions for legislative action, accompanied by drafts of bills em- bodying the legislation recommended; . In accordance with said section, this Division respectfully submits the portion of its annual report (Pub. Doc. No. 142) wherein legislation is recommended. The Legislature of 1924 passed bills recommended by the Division for; (a) Construction of the Northern Artery. (b) Modification of plans of the Cottage Farm Bridge providing for a relocation of the railroad and the construction of an underpass on the Boston side. The takings for the Northern Artery have been made by the Metropolitan District Commission, and it is expected that construction work will be substantially completed dur- ing the calendar year 1926. The Metropolitan District (ommission has also substantially completed its revised plans for the Cottage Farm Bridge, and unless delayed by 2 HOUSE-No. 133. [Jan. legal proceedings will let the contract for the bridge during the coming spring. The Legislature of 1925, acting upon reports of this Division, passed acts providing for: (a) The construction of the Southern Artery (chapter 330) (6) The extension of the West Roxbury Parkway to Newton Street (chapter 313). (c) The widening and improvement of Morton Street by the city of Boston (chapter 325). (d) The widening and improvement of River Street in Hyde Park by the city of Boston (chapter 323). (e) The widening and improvement of Lower Main Street and Broadway by the city of Cambridge from the Cambridge bridge to Mechanics Square (chapter 254). Engineering and construction work on many of these street improvements is now under way and their comple- tion will signally help the traffic situation in the Metro- politan District. I. Circumferential Highway. During the year the Division has spent much time upon a general highway plan for the District, and its studies lead it to believe that the greatest present highway need of the District is the construction of certain missing links in our parkway and road systems, which will give a substantially continuous circumferential highway leading from the north to the south shore, passing around the most thickly settled sections of the Metropolitan area. Boston and its environs are most fortunate in their local and Metropolitan parks, parkways, and boulevards; but most of these boulevards were constructed with the thought of leading traffic from outlying districts to the center of the city. The congestion in the central district has now become so serious that it is most desirable to keep as much through traffic as possible out of the downtown region and permit it to circulate freely around the district and in its less congested parts. With this thought in mind, the Division has made an extensive study of existing parkways and thoroughfares 1926.] HOUSE —No. 133. 3 which could properly form a part of an efficient circumferen- tial route; and it presents with this report a plan embodying such a circumferential highway. It has been laid out with the thought of using, so far as possible, existing highways and parkways, uniting them together where no adequate connection exists. The route as laid out will start at the Lynn Shore Drive in Lynn near the Swampscott line and follow Eastern Avenue or other convenient streets to West- ern Avenue. From Western Avenue, the easterly entrance to Lynn Woods can be reached at the Great Woods road entrance over excellent streets. It is then proposed to con- struct a suitable parkway through the Lynn Woods to the Newburyport Turnpike and thence by a second section of parkway reach the easterly end of the Lynn Fells Parkway, The Lynn Fells Parkway and parkways in the Middlesex Fells and along the Mystic River, with one short section of street in Medford, wall carry traffic to the westerly end of the Alewife Brook Parkway at Massachusetts Avenue. It is then proposed to construct a missing link largely on land now owned by the Commonwealth from the southerly end of the Alewife Brook Parkway to the northerly end of Fresh Pond Parkway at Huron Avenue. From the southerly end of the Fresh Pond Parkway there are adequate streets and parkways leading through Boston and Brookline to the Stony Brook Parkway which in turn will carry traffic to Readville. A short connecting link is required in Readville and another short link near Paul’s Bridge and the Blue Hills Reservation, is reached. It is then proposed to construct a parkway largely in the Blue Hills Reservation to Randolph Avenue; thence follow Ran- dolph Avenue to the southerly edge of the Reservation, thence by a new parkway along the southerly edge of the Blue Hills Reservation and West Street to the Five Corners in Braintree, from which roads of good alignment and low gradients reach all sections of the South Shore. Some of these roadways need resurfacing; and we have assurance that this will be done either by the towns or jointly by the towns and the State under the provisions of chapter 90. The route has been laid out to make the maximum use 4 HOUSE —No. 133. [Jan. of existing parkways and streets. Some of these parkways, as for instance the roads in the Stony Brook Reservation, and some of the roads in the Middlesex Fells Reservation, while being entirely usable, are in need of improvement and realignment; but we feel confident this will be attended to by the Metropolitan District Commission as soon as the volume of traffic, which this route will bring to these road- ways, warrants such improvements. Originally parkways were carriage roads in our parks, and the name “parkway” still carries to many the thought of a purely pleasure route. To-day, however, our parkways are very largely used by automobilists passing in and out of the Metropolitan District; and they have become a most im- portant part of the through traffic routes of the Metropoli- tan area. It is particularly desirable that they should be so used, because as a rule they have few intersecting streets; they have few, if any, houses bordering them; and traffic can move over them in large volume and at good speed. In the past these parkways have been used entirely for pas- senger cars, and commercial cars and busses have been excluded. If, however, these parkways are to become parts of important through routes, we believe that it is proper that they be opened to certain classes of commercial vehicles that would not injure the roadways or restrict their use for passenger cars. Today 90 per cent of the cars registered as commercial vehicles are light delivery cars which, with their full loads, weigh less than 4,000 pounds and are capable of traveling at any speed that is safe for automobiles. We accordingly recommend that, so far as the new sections covered by the accompanying bill are concerned, they be opened to commercial cars which, with their loads, weigh less than 4,000 pounds. We think it would be most objec- tionable to open any of our parkways to the heavy truck, and possibly to the large and cumbersome bus; but we see no distinction between a Ford car with a delivery body and the same car with a passenger body. Furthermore, the registration of trucks is only about 15 per cent of the regis- tration of passenger cars; and the light truck is used mostly for local delivery and not for through business. Accordingly 1926.1 house No. 133 5 we doubt if the opening of the parkways provided for in this act to light commercial vehicles would increase the traffic on them by over 2 per cent or 3 per cent. Finally, it should be noted that we are not suggesting a complete throwing open of parkways to commercial vehicles but are merely suggesting an experiment of that nature on the new sec- tions of parkways provided for in this act. The bill accom- panying the act provides specifically that the Metropolitan District Commission may close these parkways to commer- cial vehicles, if, after a reasonable period of actual use by light commercial vehicles, it is found that such use is detri- mental to the public interest. The total length of the missing links provided for in the bill accompanying this act is 12.6 miles. The total length of the circumferential route combining both parkways and general traffic streets is about 37 miles. It will thus be seen that the construction of a relatively few miles of missing links will complete a very important circumferential route. The estimated cost of the missing links of the circumferen- tial highway herein recommended is as follows; j Land Damage. Construction. Total. Sections in Lynn, Saugus and Melrose $105,000 $591,000 $696,000 Section in Cambridge .... 50,000 600,000 650,000 Sections in the Blue Hills district . 54,000 589,000 643,000 209,000 51,780.000 51,989,000 The bill provides that as the sections are all parkways they shall be built by the Metropolitan District Commis- sion, and shall be paid for, one-half by the District and one-half from the Highway Fund. The Division heartily recommends this entire route as the most important Metropolitan highway project of the year.
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